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Irish Examiner – Boy George: Madonna a hypocritical homophobe

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Gay pop star Boy George has slammed Madonna for embracing the Kabbalah, the mystical offshoot of Judaism which preaches homosexuality is a disease.

The former Culture Club singer is horrified the Material Girl flirted with lesbianism – most famously in her controversial kisses with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at 2003’s MTV Video Music Awards – yet supports a religion which believes homosexuals can be cured.

He fumes: “I have a problem with Madonna’s devotion to Kabbalah, because I watched a documentary that said that Kabbalah believes that gay people are diseased and can be cured.

“She’s such a hypocrite. This is the woman who has embraced homosexuality and used it to her advantage.”

Oh goodness, it’s been months since Madonna’s had words with a gay pop singer. It just ads so much frivolity to the world stage, does it not? Ahhh, very gratifying.

Update 3.8:

Times 2 – Madonna’s a cynic and Elton’s offensive. Next? by Andrew Billen

George, however, does not have to rely on sticks and stones to break bones — not with the mouth he has on him and the pen his co-author Paul Gorman carries. Rosie O’Donnell, the American comedienne and chat-show host who brought Taboo to New York with $10 million of her own money, gets a good beating for closing it. Gay herself, she is not gay enough for George, who accuses her of neutering the show. “She’s a Pottery Barn lesbian,” he says although he adds that she was domineering too (in the book he compares her to his father).

The crooner George Michael is also the wrong kind of gay. George accuses Michael of hypocrisy for denying his sexuality in his early career and then denounces him for getting arrested in a Californian lavatory, thereby propagating the myth that gay men are “rampant”. He is just as scathing about the stylists on the TV makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; they, however, are not gay enough. “My life is about much more than what my cushions are like or what theatre show I should go to. It’s really poncy. I just think that they should leave straight people alone, they look fine.”

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The celebrity homosexual who gets the biggest kicking, however, is Elton John, whom he berates for performing a duet with Eminem at the 2002 MTV Awards. “It’s like me singing with Pol Pot,” he says, -[haha]- blaming the rapper’s lyrics for legitimising homophobia on the streets. “People will call you a fag or whatever occasionally, but it’s so much more prevalent now and he has to take some responsibility. He’s an asshole and I think every gay person with a brain cell found it hideously offensive to see Elton performing with him.”

And later:

Career is not a word George likes and, to be fair, he has avoided the easy ways of reviving his own. He has turned down reunion tours with Culture Club and said he would rather “sleep in the gutter” than accept a recently proffered invitation to appear on I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! -[thank god!]- But some comparisons with artists of his era are unavoidable. When I met him a decade ago he maintained immodestly that he was the last pop artist that everyone, even your granny, had heard of. I should have challenged him by saying, “What about Madonna?” “I’ve always been fascinated by Madonna,” he admits. “As I say in my book, she is fascinating, but fascinating probably for all the wrong reasons. Many years ago, when she brought out her sex book, I was asked by a journalist on Rolling Stone, ‘What do you think is next for Madonna?’ and I said, ‘She’s going to have a baby and she’s going to find God.’ It was so predictable.”

I know!

Does he see himself in some kind of competition with her? “No. I never have. I’ve always seen what she does as entirely different from what I do. Her agenda with the gay community was always about, ‘It’s good for me’. It’s ironic that she’s joined an organisation (Kabbalah) that says homosexuality is a disease that can be cured and no one picks her up on it. After making all those millions of dollars out of gay people, pretending to kiss girls, pretending to be a lesbian! I think she’s cynical. I’m not cynical. I think that’s the difference.”

Hm.

There, wasn’t that fun? It’s a fascinating read. I’ve loved Boy George (whereas before I only liked him as a pop singer) ever since junior year in high school when we were in Ashland with the Shakespeare club for some plays, and we were all on one of the beds in the hotel watching VH1’s Behind the Music, and there was one on Culture Club, and it was so interesting! And he was so honest about everything and so funny, and then he used the word “abysmal” and I was so impressed. Here’s this guy that spent an entire decade under the influence of some narcotic or another, and is not known for the education he received, and he uses words like abysmal (properly)! The most educated American would never use that word, unless he were the sort of insufferable culture snob that nobody likes and probably works in the classical texts department at Yale, and pretends to have a British accent even if he did grow up in eastern Iowa.